For researchers

The True Parents Legacy archive (tplegacy.net) is a non-commercial scholarly digital archive of primary-source texts of the Unification Movement. This page documents the machine-readable access points, persistent identifiers, and reuse terms for researchers, digital-humanities projects, and metadata services.

Access points at a glance

ResourceAddress / format
OAI-PMH endpointhttps://tplegacy-oai.tplegacy.workers.dev/oai — Dublin Core (oai_dc)
Linked Open Data dumpgithub.com/Jon-tplegacy/tplegacy-lod — RDF N-Triples
Open datasetsZenodo · Hugging Face · Kaggle
Persistent identifiersARK (NAAN 68749), resolved via n2t.net
LicenseCC BY-NC 4.0

The corpus

3,700+ English-language passages — sermons, public speeches, prayers, and book excerpts — attributed to Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) and Hak Ja Han Moon (1943–present), covering the period 1946–2012. The texts are English translations of addresses originally delivered primarily in Korean. Each item carries structured Dublin Core metadata and a persistent ARK.

How to cite

Please cite individual items by their title and ARK, attributing the editorial work to the archive editor. Suggested form:

[Title]. The True Parents Legacy Archive, ed. Jon Auror.
ark:/68749/[item-slug]. https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/[item-slug]
Editor of the resource
Jon Auror — ORCID 0009-0005-1168-3438
Authors of the source texts
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012); Hak Ja Han Moon (1943–present)
Citation export
Every item page embeds COinS metadata, so reference managers such as Zotero detect and import the citation automatically. Highwire Press and Dublin Core <meta> tags are also present in each page head.
Dataset DOI
10.5281/zenodo.20442104 (Zenodo) — cite this for the dataset as a whole.

Metadata access — OAI-PMH

The archive exposes its metadata through an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for harvesting by aggregators and service providers.

Base URL
https://tplegacy-oai.tplegacy.workers.dev/oai
Metadata format
oai_dc (Simple Dublin Core)
Sets
sermons, prayers, books

Example requests:

?verb=Identify
?verb=ListSets
?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=sermons
?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&from=2025-01-01

Linked Open Data

A full RDF dump of the archive is published openly and regenerated weekly. It uses the schema.org vocabulary and links extensively to external authorities.

FileDescription
tplegacy.ntRDF dump in N-Triples (auto-updated weekly)
void.ttlVoID dataset description (LOD Cloud)
stats.jsonTriple and link counts

Repository: github.com/Jon-tplegacy/tplegacy-lod. Direct download of the dump: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jon-tplegacy/tplegacy-lod/main/tplegacy.nt

The dataset includes roughly 3,400 schema:sameAs links to Wikidata, plus links to the n2t.net ARK resolver and to the Creative Commons license. The archive is registered on the LOD Cloud (Publications domain) and described in Wikidata as Q138757400. Items are also connected to one another through an internal cross-reference and citation graph.

Open datasets for reuse

The corpus is also published as flat datasets for computational and machine-learning use:

Hugging Face
huggingface.co/datasets/JonAuror/tplegacy-teachings — JSONL text corpus
Kaggle
kaggle.com/datasets/jonauror/…sermons-and-speeches-1946-2012
Zenodo
zenodo.org/records/20442104 — archived RDF release, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20442104

Persistent identifiers

ARK
NAAN 68749 — each item has an ARK of the form ark:/68749/[slug], resolvable at https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/[slug]
ORCID (editor)
0009-0005-1168-3438

License & reuse

Metadata and the compiled corpus are released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Reuse for research and education is welcome with attribution; commercial use is not permitted. The underlying source texts remain the work of their original authors and may carry separate rights.

Contact

Questions about harvesting, metadata, or reuse: tplegacy.net/contact.